Autor: Howard Brody

How does your opponent put that tricky spin on the ball? Why are some serves easier to return than others? The mysteries behind the winning strokes, equipment, and surfaces of the game of tennis are …

The brain can heal the body: that’s the remarkable truth behind the body’s placebo response. As one of the nation’s foremost authorities on the mysterious connection between mind and body, Dr. Howard …

The product of six years of collaborative research, this fine biography offers new interpretations of a pioneering figure in anesthesiology, epidemiology, medical cartography, and public health. It m …

Our personalities and our identities are intimately bound up with the stories that we tell to organize and to make sense of our lives. To understand the human meaning of illness, we therefore must tu …

Bioethics, born in the 1960s and 1970s, has achieved great success, but also has experienced recent growing pains, as illustrated by the case of Terri Schiavo. In The Future of Bioethics, Howard Brod …

As the former president of the National Wrestling Alliance, Howard Brody gives a first-hand account of how he was able to survive the world of professional wrestling politics, despite getting a few b …

For over two decades of pro wrestling, Dusty the American Dream Rhodes dominated the ring. Known for his jaw-dropping antics and bone-crunching skills, Rhodes became one of wrestlings first superstar …

The product of six years of collaborative research, this fine biography offers new interpretations of a pioneering figure in anesthesiology, epidemiology, medical cartography, and public health. It m …

An examination of the moral principles and institutional arrangements that will be needed to drive any new health care reform inititive. Health care reform has been stalled since the Clinton health c …

Bioethics, born in the 1960s and 1970s, has achieved great success, but also has experienced recent growing pains, as illustrated by the case of Terri Schiavo. In The Future of Bioethics, Howard Brod …

Our personalities and our identities are intimately bound up with the stories that we tell to organize and to make sense of our lives. To understand the human meaning of illness, we therefore must tu …

This is the first book to offer a critical analysis of one variant of the mystery story or novel-the use of a physician as the major detective. There is little difference between a medical "case …

Over the past forty years, the health humanities, previously called the medical humanities, has emerged as one of the most exciting fields for interdisciplinary scholarship, advancing humanistic inqu …